Look, here's the thing. Whether it's permissible by law or not, it's really scary to me that this company has that kind of information about me. It's just not right. I know for a fact that I'm not the only one they've done it to which makes me wonder what they are doing with the information. If you used them and want to know if they ran a check on you, you can find out by going to this site:
http://www.experian.com/consumer/index.html That's the credit agency they went through so if they ran one on you it will be on the report you get from them.